Like my cute alliterative title? Anyway. I’ve followed the Levy mess from the start and was looking forward to seeing the interview Condit did with Connie Chung. Alas, I fell asleep at 8PM and missed it.
I’m hearing bits on the news now, but I’m asking fellow Dopers who saw the piece: Did this interview further convince you of what you think happened, change your mind completely, or just make you wonder a little? Or did it just make you laugh? 
The guy was such a weasel, neither my girlfriend nor I could believe the things he was saying.
He basically squirmed his way out whenever he was asked about his relationship with Chandra by stating that he was a married man, he was not perfect, and that out of a request by the Levy family he would not answer. (The Levy’s lawyer later said there never was any such formal request)
After that, he stated that he has never lied to the police nor to the Levy family. When Chung confronted him with statements made by both parties that were contradictory, he had the gall to say that they misunderstood and that they were confused.
That was pretty much when I turned off the TV in disgust. I applaud Connie for grilling this bastard like she did, but I think even less of Condit now than before the interview.
Umm, refer to “It’s Gary Condit’s Thread” over in MPSIMS . . .
The guy is as slipper in answering the question as Bill Clinton was.
I think the more important issue here is–will voters of California be stupid enough to re-elect him for this office or any office.
I ask this because of people like Senator Ted Kennedy who have been re-elected since forever even though there is that little issue of Chappaquiddick and the election of certain politician by voters for decades even though it is obvious they are past their prime (i.e. Senator Helms).
If you think Helms is past his prime, what do you think of our fair Senator Strom Thurmond?
Is he still alive?
That’s what the press release says.
Senator Thurmond needs to retire to write his memoirs and embark upon a lucrative acting career in commercials (isn’t that what Dole did?). I know he is the last living civil war hero and should be respected as such, but he really needs to be replaced.
The man never answered a question.
Chung - “Did you have a sexual relationship with Ms. Levy?”
Condit - Well I have slipped a few times, but I have been married for 34 years."
I don’t think he killed her, but I do think he knows what happened to her.
Metaphorically, Gary Condit had a rifle, and a target, and he turned around his rifle and shot himself in the face. That’s how bad the interview was. If he runs for reelection he’ll lose in the primary in a vastly redrawn district thanks to the Democratic-controlled redistricting process in California. I wouldn’t be surprised if they cannibalize it altogether or just turn it into an Hispanic-majority one. BTW, RNC commissioned actuaries figured out there’s a 50% chance Thurmond will die before his term is up. He can’t even walk without a person on each side (he can’t swallow his pride like Helms and get a scooter) and he looks like the Keeper of the Crypt. Frankly, and rather morbidly, I think 50% is optimistic.
I only read the transcript of the interview, which I unfortunately cannot now find.
What I read made a lot of sense to me. At about question number two, Connie Chung asked, “tell me about your relationship with Ms. Levy,” to which Condit answered, approximately, “my lawyer and the Levy family asked me not to.”
What followed was twenty minutes of cross-examining designed to undermine that position, which Condit predictably resisted.
I make no statements as to the guilt or innocence of Rep. Condit, I’m just pointing out that Condit said right off the bat that he wouldn’t answer questions about his relationship with Chandra, and Connie continued to ask him about it throughout the interview.
Condit’s performance was so bad, that the best explanation I have seen comes from the “Y2K end of the world” and “The Clinton’s going for 3 terms” crowd.
They think Levy got bumped off because during her tenure at the Prison Bureau, she found out about a super secret connection between McVeigh and the CIA mind control experiment group that ordered him to blow up the building.
They reason (using the term loosely) that Condit’s bad performance was sooo bad that it JUST HAD TO BE planned as a red herring to take the heat off the CIA.
I found this so funny I just had to tell someone, and I couldn’t bear to see the stares from my friends if I tried to tell someone in person.
:):)